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Mach4 General Discussion / Re: Retrofitting a Onsrud 72C10 router using Hicon and Mach4.....need help
« on: February 27, 2017, 10:08:14 PM »
Hello Mauri,
At this point, anything helps!
Seriously though, I hired to guys, father and son team to come do this for me and when the son showed me the little circuit board he was intending to use I told him there was not enough room to put all the parts needed and he informed me that he knew what he was doing. So, I shut up! They were only coming once a week for one day and sometimes would miss a couple of weeks, but it was not costing me very much, and at this time in my life that was important. The got the machine to where we could command it and it would move correctly, and I was told one more trip and they would have it usable. When they came back and started working, I heard the son say to the father, "there isn't enough room for me to get everything on the board"! They left for the day and have never come back, will not return my phone calls (the son) and refused to let me have any notes or schematics!
I have had two other people who was suppose to come out and they have never showed, so I decided to do it myself! I graduated the Air Force electronics school but it was a very long time ago! I absolutely understand the safety concerns you have and am ever vigilant to adhere to sound safety practices!
I have downloaded all the manuals I can find, and if there is more not on the site, let me know.
I was just in phone contact with Marc and Rufi just before I got the email alerting me to your post so I am going pretty close to your suggestions!
Everything that will be used with the Hicon other than input power is 24 vdc and 9 vdc.
I guess I wasn't too clear on the E-Stop question. I am not talking about the red E-Stop buttons, but rather three separate safety circuits all tied to one input to stop the machine in case any one of the three were triggered. Rufi just told me that I really needed each of those circuits on a separate input pin so I could know where the trouble lay in case of a trigger.
Mauri do you know of anyone who really knows schematics and possibly theory?
Thanks again for your help!
Mike
At this point, anything helps!
Seriously though, I hired to guys, father and son team to come do this for me and when the son showed me the little circuit board he was intending to use I told him there was not enough room to put all the parts needed and he informed me that he knew what he was doing. So, I shut up! They were only coming once a week for one day and sometimes would miss a couple of weeks, but it was not costing me very much, and at this time in my life that was important. The got the machine to where we could command it and it would move correctly, and I was told one more trip and they would have it usable. When they came back and started working, I heard the son say to the father, "there isn't enough room for me to get everything on the board"! They left for the day and have never come back, will not return my phone calls (the son) and refused to let me have any notes or schematics!
I have had two other people who was suppose to come out and they have never showed, so I decided to do it myself! I graduated the Air Force electronics school but it was a very long time ago! I absolutely understand the safety concerns you have and am ever vigilant to adhere to sound safety practices!
I have downloaded all the manuals I can find, and if there is more not on the site, let me know.
I was just in phone contact with Marc and Rufi just before I got the email alerting me to your post so I am going pretty close to your suggestions!
Everything that will be used with the Hicon other than input power is 24 vdc and 9 vdc.
I guess I wasn't too clear on the E-Stop question. I am not talking about the red E-Stop buttons, but rather three separate safety circuits all tied to one input to stop the machine in case any one of the three were triggered. Rufi just told me that I really needed each of those circuits on a separate input pin so I could know where the trouble lay in case of a trigger.
Mauri do you know of anyone who really knows schematics and possibly theory?
Thanks again for your help!
Mike